June 2019

http://ecos.fws.gov/ipac/

IPaC will transform interagency

cooperation by delivering efficient

21st-century consultations and greatly

improving regulatory consistency,

predictability, transparency, and

conservation outcomes.

IPaC Visitors & Usage:

• >25,000 registered users (adding about 700/month)

• ~900 visitors/day (Most use - CA, TX, VA, CO, NY)

• 80% return visitors

• Users can get: Official Species Lists, Effect Pathways,

Conservation Measures, Species Survey Guidelines, and

Automated S7 Consultation (DKeys).

• 800-1,000 resource lists generated daily

• ~150 official species lists issued daily

• All FO’s except for Pacific Islands (coming soon)

• ~2,000 downloads of species guidelines and protocols per year

Dkeys are logically-structured sets of questions which assist a user in

determining whether a project qualifies for a predetermined

consultation outcome based on an existing programmatic consultation

or internal standing analysis.

• Functionality complete

Nov. 30, 2016

• 3 Pilot DKeys

released Dec. 1,

2016

• 2 additional Keys

released in 2017

• Newest Key released

in March 2019

Dkeys are delivered through the Information for Planning and

Consultation (IPaC) web application located at

https://ecos.fws.gov/ipac

Delivery through IPaC allows the Service to:

• Leverage geospatial data

• Track the use and implementation of programmatic consultations

• Deliver automated concurrence letters

Photo credit: USFWS

Dkeys automatically answer geospatially-based questions.

Dkeys collect and store (in TAILS) project information that can be

queried and analyzed at anytime.

Dkeys automatically generate concurrence letters

NO EFFECT DETERMINATION

FEDERAL AGENCY*

SUMMARY DOCUMENT

FOR THEIR RECORDS

NLAA DETERMINATION

(or “May Affect” for NLEB)CONCURRENCE/VERFICIATION LETTER

TAILS, FO Notification

OUTSIDE SCOPE OF KEY NO DOCUMENTATION

LAA DETERMINATIONSUMMARY DOCUMENT FOR

OFFLINE SUBMITTAL TO FWS FO

IPaC

*What if I’m not a Federal

Agency?

• We issue a “Consistency”

letter for you to provide to

either your lead Federal

Agency or FWS.

* The numbers shown in parentheses are additional NLAA “Consistency” projects in IPaC pending submittal through a

Federal Action Agency for Concurrence. These are NOT included in the total. Numbers as of 5/21/19.

Note: Final concurrence documents are logged directly into TAILS. If an OSL record was already created in

TAILS through IPaC, the DKey documents will add to that same TAILS record for the project.

Key Coverage Release Date NE NLAA* LAA MA TOTAL

FHWA

I-Bat &

NLEB

Transportation work affecting 2 bat spp

throughout range

4/3/17

(Rev Feb.

2018)

3,526 2,787

(+282)

281 - 6,694

Federal

Loan

Fed Loans & Grants, all spp throughout FL

(except Monroe Co.)

12/1/16 480 - - - 480

ACOE

Manatee

In-water work affecting manatee

throughout FL

12/1/16 97 63

(+11)

- - 160

USCG

Events

Marine events affecting 13 spp in South FL 12/1/16 - 18 - - 18

ACOE LCT In-water work affecting Lahontan Cutthroat

Trout in Lake Tahoe

10/20/17 - 29 - - 29

NLEB 4d

Rule

All projects throughout the range of the

NLEB covered by the existing 4d rule

3/28/19 - - - 679

(+306)

679

Currently:

• Provide survey guidelines, general conservation measures,

and best management practices for species on your official

species list.

• Allow users to collaboratively work on a project and share

files.

• Integrate with the Effect Pathway Manager (EPM) module to

deliver activity-specific conservation measures

By 2020:

• Walk users through building a complete Biological

Assessment using our upcoming Consultation Package Builder.

Production (aka Live) IPaCProduction IPaC is available at: https://ecos.fws.gov/ipac/

Official species lists and DKey correspondence created in Production IPaC are

written to TAILS as records and generate e-mail notifications to the appropriate

FWS Field Office. Use Production IPaC for actual projects.

Beta (aka Test) IPaCBeta IPaC is available at: https://ecos-beta.fws.gov/ipac/

Everything currently on Production is also available on Beta. Use Beta IPaC for

testing and for touring IPaC and checking out the features. Projects and

documents generated in here are not logged as official records to TAILS and do

not generate emails to the local FWS Field Offices.

Helpful Reference Videos

• Jun 2017 - Mock-Up of the Next Phases of Work (19 min)

This video shows a mock-up demonstration of the new functionality currently underway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlLOBAZ6GW8&feature=youtu.be

• Dec 2016 - What’s new in IPaC: Assisted Determinations (12 min)

This video demonstrates the DKey functionality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDWazJTZk9Q

• Apr 2016 – What IPaC Does Today (5 min):

This video describes the impact analysis feature that comes from the EPM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWDt7gJPU8